Mikhail F. Lukin

Mikhail Feodorovich Lukin (18 November 1892-25 May 1970) was a Lieutenant-General of the Soviet Red Army who commanded the Soviet 20th Army during World War II.

Biograpy
Mikhail Feodorovich Lukin was born on 18 November 1892 in Poluhtino, Tver Oblast, Russian Empire to a family of Russian peasants. In 1913, he joined the Imperial Russian Army, and he joined the Red Army in 1917. Lukin joined the Bolsheviks in 1919, and he became a divisional commander in 1935. From 1935 to 1937, he served as the military commandant in Moscow, and he was given command of the new Soviet 16th Army in the spring of 1941. During the First Battle of Smolensk, he succeeded in distracting the German military from its advance on Moscow, and he was given command of the Soviet 20th Army in August 1941, holding this command for one month. Lukin led the Soviet 19th Army when it was encircled in the Vyazma Pocket, and he was captured by the Germans in October 1941. One of his legs was amputated while in captivity, and he was released in May 1945. He died in Moscow in 1970.